A 50p coin has been listed on eBay for £5,000. The Battle of Britain 50p coins are fairly rare, and are of a high value according to hopeful eBay sellers.

Rare coins are worth huge sums of money, and some are listed on eBay for millions. Others go for thousands, with coin collectors scouring the internet to snap up bargains on rare pieces.

The fewer coins are minted, the rarer the coin is - and the more valuable it will become.

Mistakes on a coin will also make the piece much rarer, as usually there will be very few coins with errors in circulation.

The 2013 Benjamin Britten 50p coin to honour the British composer is one of these rare coins that many are looking to collect. Some are currently on eBay for around £1,500.

Another 50p coin is selling on eBay for £5,000. Do you have one of these rare coins in your wallet? The Battle of Britain 50p has been listed on eBay for the whopping sum by a hopeful seller.

The silver coin was issued in 2015, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The coin has three different designs of the Queen, and was the first ever 50p coin to have three designs for the two faces.

One design included a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Jody Clarke without lettering, and another was the same portrait with the 50p on it.

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The other featured Ian Rank-Broadley's portrait of the Queen without the 50 pence lettering.

The version of the coin for sale for the large sum is the 50p with the new portrait by Jody Clarke, without the 50p denomination.

The other side of the coin was designed by Gary Breeze, and depicts soldiers running towards planes waiting the distance.

When the coin was released in 2015, Royal Mint said: “It is the only official coin to be released, and with its design showing airmen scrambling to their planes, not heeding the danger looming above, it truly echoes the spirit of the summer of 1940.”

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